Meals per day

Hello,
My baby has turned 7 months today, am I the only mum who feeds him one (solids) puréed meal a day?
What are mumma's generally feeding their babies at 7 months and when during the day?

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Three meals. Still pureed. I'm too nervous about BLW. Will work up to it

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I do three meals as well unless we’re on the go but only puréed it gives me anxiety to even think about blw. I try to do breakfast and then milk 2 hours after some sleep hopefully two hours and then lunch and just repeat it dinner and then a bottle right before bed x

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We are still one puréed meal a day too! I occasionally offer pieces of soft cooked veg etc when we are having our meal too x

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3 full meals. So wat I do is I’ll feed her her purées first then I’ll give her actual food like blw so she can feed herself too and eat while my husband and I eat.

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I’m doing one puree still

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One meal but BLW
The goal is for them to be on 3 meals by a year so I’m not in a rush to get them on 3 meals

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One meal here as well but she doesn’t eat much/any of it

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Im doing 2 meals with a mixture of puree and BLW. I added the second meal a few days before 7 months but because he was living the other meal rather than because of his age. I'll do 2 meals for a good while before adding in a third - at least a month, maybe 2

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We do three meals a day. He will have a small amount of baby porridge made with his formula in the morning and he still finishes an 8oz bottle.

Then at lunch he will have a small selection of finger foods to play with and explore before I give a small amount of puree, he still has 5oz of milk.

At dinner time a similar amount to lunch and still 5oz

Then at night he has 10oz of milk

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We do BLW with 2 meals a day

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I do 2 meals a day now well I try to depends on how our day is going usually something for breakfast like baby porridge or a banana and then tea time a meal, but on puréed as I’m terrified to try BLW x

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Three BLW meals a day my little girl is on, and about 3-4 bottles of milk

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Literally yesterday added in a second meal ontop of 1 puréed meal

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Just upped to 2 meals, breakfast and lunch. Only purees as I'm also too scared of blw, my boy gags so much as it is!

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Thanks everyone for your replies, super helpful!!
Can I ask for those on one more than 1 meal a day, what are you feeding your babies?
I batch cooked few days ago combination of sweet potato and carrot as a base and then adding spinach, broccoli or cauliflower to the mix. Plus some formula milk to make it mushy and easier for my baby to be able to swallow.

Any vegetarian recommendations would be greatly welcomed :)

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Porridge or avo toast for breakfast then some sort of puréed veg for dinner (which I batch cook and freeze in ice cube trays) we have started adding in things like orzo pasta and white fish for a bit of texture

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Either breakfast so weetabix with banana/strawberries mixed in or baked oat bars and some fruit on the side. Or lunch will be anything from toast, to some of what we had for dinner the night before, fruit and yoghurt xx

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I’m doing BLW with my little girl, she’s had broccoli, carrot, sprouts, cucumber, peppers, sweetcorn, shredded chicken, cheese, strawberries, blueberries, porridge, weetabix, Rice Krispies, pasta, sausages, spaghetti carbonara, toast with peanut butter or marmite, scrambled eggs, watermelon

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My little boy is nearly 8 months and he has 2 meals a day breakfast and evening meal. When he's around 9 and a half month we will go upto 3 meals a day xx

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